Who first said "It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future"
(or one of its many variants)?

(Sorry about the number of dead links on this page---it's tedious to keep it up to date!)

• Yogi Berra
      http://www.workinghumor.com/quotes/yogi_berra.shtml
      http://www.thebigshow.com/BITPAGES/yogiquotes.html
      http://www.lemberg.com/whypredict.html
  
  
• Niels Bohr
      http://www.dailycelebrations.com/100700.htm
      http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/the+future/
      http://eagar.mit.edu/EagarPresentations/tomsquotes.html
  
  
• Casey Stengel
      http://www.boeing.com/news/speeches/1998/stonecipher092498.html
      http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/creditscoring/present/tsld003.htm
      http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/1997/042097a.htm
  
  
• Sam Goldwyn
      http://rinkworks.com/said/samuelgoldwyn.shtml
      http://www.nbma.com/news/other/stanford.html
      http://www.itstime.com/jan98.htm (Mark Twain too!)
  
  
• Dan Quayle
      http://www.itstime.com/jan2000.htm (compare immediately above)
      http://church.freethought.org/9901.future.html
      http://css.peak.org/newsletter/2000/dec00/css_pres.html
  
  
• Will Rogers
      http://www.oncomp.com/jan00-1.htm
      http://www.audioclassics.net/html/inv_files/crash.htm
      http://www.chariscorp-wordgems.com/wealth.mistakes.reality1.html
  
  
• Mark Twain
      http://www.climatemakers.com/010302.htm
      http://www.cbi.cgey.com/network/bookreviews/soros.html
      http://www.fraunhofer.de/english/publications/areport/index_ar.html
  
  
• Albert Einstein
      http://www.princeton.edu/~mjjr/ORGO/HT1-01.pdf
  
  
• Allan Lamport (former mayor of Toronto)
      http://www.conservativeforum.org/authquot.asp?ID=1251
      http://www.longwoods.com/legalfocus/12-99/feature.html
      http://www.canoe.ca/CANOE2000/lookahead_8.html
      http://www.issuesnetwork.com/zwriters00_99/1bruce.html
  
  
• George Bernard Shaw
      http://www.archi.net.au/toolkit/sydney-toolkit-pdfs/powerpoint/003-Mortimer.pdf
      http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/173_01_030700/leeder/leeder.html
  
  
• Victor Borge
      http://www.bridgeag.ch/bdg_pages/e_q_fut.html
      http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/protectionismpopulismandinterventionism/canindustrial.shtml
  
  
• Robert Storm Petersen (Danish poet and philosopher)
      http://www.diku.dk/~panic/eyegaze/node29.html
      http://www.tc-forum.org/topicspe/sa10thef.htm
  
  
• Winston Churchill
      http://www.isr.gov.au/resources/netenergy/aen/aen6/6keynote.html
  
  
• Disreali [sic]
      http://www.clemson.edu/masterplan/maps/
  
  
• Groucho Marx
      http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-19/Debate-4.html
  
  
• Enrico Fermi
      http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/meetings/starplanet2001/talks/trimble.ps.gz
  
  
• Woody Allen
      http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/impact/0600/herringJ.htm
  
  
• Confucius
      http://www.geocities.com/houtari/humor/english/aforisms.html
  
  
• Freeman Dyson
      http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/bwwg/gleick.pdf
  
  
• Cecil B. DeMille
      http://www.perkinscapital.com/4Q01ltr.pdf
  
  
• Vint Cerf
      http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/invitedtalks/poggio.pdf
  
  
• Dr. Kerr L. White
      http://www.cfpc.ca/communications/cfp/cfpeabvision.asp
  
  
• M. Taub
      http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/~harve/quotes.html
      http://pages.zdnet.com/tallbarn/holisticeducationinstituteuk/id16.html
  
  
• Bob Fourer (of Northwestern University)
      http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/CaseStudies/slp/
  
  
• Edgar R. Fiedler
      http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_7.09.html
  
  
• "a famous philosopher"
      http://www.basispoint.com/nl/nl012000.htm
  
  
• "a famous basketball coach"
      http://www.investavenue.com/article.html?ID=493
  
  
• "a golden rule among economists"
      http://www.lgcareers.com/local/millenniumMF.htm
  
  
• "wise/old Chinese saying/proverb"
      http://www.open.ac.uk/johndanielspeeches/Athabas.html
      http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/ushk/state/1997/0424.htm
      http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa43149.000/hfa43149_0.htm
  
  
• "Danish proverb"
      https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/
  
  

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